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SSL 4000 Console

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Dr. Dre

Tupac’s All Eyez on Me (1996) was mixed on the SSL 4000 and Dr. Dre, among others, used it regularly to put together his mixes.
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Martin Solveig

In this picture martin is working in the studio using the ssl 4000 desk
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Young Guru

"An SSL is my favorite board. Not to say I don't like Neve or API boards, it's just what I prefer, I like an SSL 4000."
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Duke Dumont

Throughout this YouTube video, Dumont is seen seated in front of the console and using it in points of the video
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Jay-Z

"The studio has two rooms: Studio A downstairs, with an SSL 9000, where Kanye had a lockout, and Studio B upstairs, with an SSL 4000" This is Jay-Z's producer talking about Jay Z's studio, Roc the Mic, and the equipment they use in it
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Al Jourgensen

The studio also recently acquired an SSL 4040G console, which has been commissioned in Studio A. Purchased through Primal Gear in Nashville, the console’s former owner is Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen.
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2Pac

"For the majority of his recordings for Death Row Records Tupac would use a vintage Neumann U87. This would be fed into a Neve or SSL 4k preamp and a Studer® A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder."
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Kate Bush

According to Del Palmer (who would be the guy who would know this stuff...) Kate's studio was equipped this console.
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Trevor Horn

This article includes a photo of Trevor Horn at an SSL 4000E console.
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Arno Cost

In this picture arno is working in the studio in new york and he is using ssl desk and yamaha hs80m
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Ronni Le Tekrø

Article about Ronni's studio "Studio Studio Nyhagen" Her he talks a good deal about his SSL 4000E Console. (article is in Norwegian)
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Alan Moulder

Assault & Battery is graced with a 72-channel SSL G+ 4000-series desk, which is still crucial to Moulder's way of working. "It sounds better, and also… I'm old! It's what I'm used to. It feels right. And I like being able to immediately go to several buttons at once and change things. I bought this desk from Trent Reznor, who had it in his studio in New Orleans, and when I worked on it, I really felt that it had something about it. All desks sound different, and I really like the sound of this one. All the music passed through the desk, but in terms of how I worked, I did rides on the desk for more general 'feel' moves and in the box for detailed things, like picking out the drum hits in 'Good Times, Bad Times'.”
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Philippe Zdar

Philippe Zdar's studio revolves around a 4000 series SSL console
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Jerome Price

Jerome Price uses this item, as it can be seen in his Instagram post
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Aleks Syntek

0:52 Aleks Synteks uses ssl 4000 as one of its studio equipment
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2 SSL 4000 Console Reviews

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Because this console has the best warm analog sound :)

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about 5 years ago
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the best, huh? they sound pretty good and all, but THE BEST? What about good 'ol Rupert Neve? Api? Trident's fabulous A Range boards? The SSL 4000E through Gs are my favorite SSLs, but you trade some 'arm analog sound' as you call it for functionality and amazing routing capabilities. The 4000 boards were designed for film mixing, you know, so surround is really their area of expertise. I don't do 5.1. I am not trying to hard time you, but it just felt like an uninformed opinion here.

over 4 years ago

sonounexcapellone

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Use it for nearly everything I do in the studio

Well actually I do not own a whole SSL console (def don't have that kind of money...) but I have a channel strip unit with 2 channels from the original console. I use it for recording but also for summing stems or entire songs during my mix sessions. I use its eq and comp a lot, but even if you bypass everything and just track something after sending it through this beauty you will enrich it significantly. Can't say anything less than "amazing" for SSL. It's just great

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about 2 hours ago
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